<blockquote>'Firefox OS is designed to run Web apps, developed using standard Web technology. In this way, it avoids the platform lock-in and vendor-dependence that Apple and Android both have, and so enables the kind of fragmented, diverse world that Kovacs envisages.
Mozilla has arguably done this before. Kovacs argues that Mozilla made the Web open. While that too seems initially hyperbolic, it's not too far divorced from reality. In the 2000s, Firefox broke the back of the "Designed for Internet Explorer 6" mindset. Mozilla took on the Internet Explorer monopoly, and actually succeeded in making the Web a place for cross-platform standards rather than single vendor dominance.'
- Peter Bright,
“There’s a Web for that”—will Firefox OS bring about the end of the app? Feb 26 2013</blockquote>
<blockquote>'Why were so many people interested in what Kanies had to say? He reasoned that people were interested because he’s running a company and a project simultaneously. That was by design, he says, from the earliest days of Puppet. Doing it the other ways – either trying to graft a company onto an existing community or trying to create a community from a company project – don’t work so well.'
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He also stressed being willing to admit that a project isn’t perfect, or suitable for every use case. “People are really hesitant to say, ‘yeah, it won’t work for that,’” says Kanies.
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Another biggie Kanies mentioned is to admit when you’re wrong. Just do it and move on, don’t focus on being right at the expense of community.'
- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier,
Puppet Labs CEO: How to Grow an Authentic Open Source Community, 07 March 2013</blockquote>
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Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) form the backbone of the EU economy – accounting for 99.8 per cent of non-financial enterprises in 2012, which equates to 20.7 million businesses. The overwhelming majority (92.2 per cent) are micro-enterprises, defined as those with fewer than ten employees. Some 6.5 per cent of SMEs in the EU are classified as small enterprises (employing between 10 and 49 people) and 1.1 per cent are medium-sized (50-249 employees). Large businesses, with more than 250 employees, account for just 0.2 of enterprises in the EU’s non- financial sector.
In employment terms, SMEs provided an estimated 67.4 per cent of jobs in the non-financial business economy in 2012, almost identical to 2011 (67,4 per cent) but up from 66.9 per cent in 2010, although SMEs provided a slightly smaller share of GVA in the EU in 2011 and 2012 (58.1 per cent).'
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Mandriva returns, challenges Microsoft in small and medium enterprise segment, 2013</blockquote>
Context<blockquote>
All Things Appy: 5 Best Firefox Add-ons for Mobile-Desktop Syncing, 2013
Mozilla's Firefox OS Attracts New Vendors, Carriers and Developers, 2013
Living Lab: Urban Planning Goes Digital in Spanish 'Smart City', 2013
The Big Tent of Open Source has Room for Anarchists, Intelligence Agencies and Businesses Alike, 2013
(In The Electric Universe) Open Source Infrastructure, beginning of the Enterprise Nervous System (ENS)</blockquote>